Alma Sedonia Knobloch

Alma Sedonia Knobloch (2023) by Jennifer Redson Wiebers Maidservant of the Divine Plan

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. The Knobloch Family
2. Discovery of the Bahá’í Faith
3. Mírzá Abu’l-Faḍl
4. The Church
5. Bringing the Black Community into the Faith
6. A Missed Pilgrimage
7. Homefront Pioneering in New York State
8. Dr Edwin Fisher
9. Edwin Fisher Raises the Call in Germany
10. Alma’s Call to Germany
11. Unusual Confirmations
12. Rapid Expansion in Stuttgart
13. Bahá’í Identity, Community Building and Consolidation
14. Alma and Edwin Fisher
15. Invitation to the Holy Land, and the Passing of Amalie Knobloch
16. Pilgrimage
17. Distractions
18. Germany ‘As Long as Possible’
19. Beyond Stuttgart
20. The Stuttgart Board of Counsel
21. The Role of Women in the Community
22. Two Dreams, Two Meetings
23. Steadfastly Building Community
24. Tablets to the German Believers
25. The German Bahá’ís Meet ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London and Paris
26. Lady Blomfield and the Stuttgart Bahá’í Community
27. Leipzig at Last
28. Summer of 1912
29. Alma’s Family in Leipzig
30. Petitions to the Master
31. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Germany
32. Fanny’s Illness and Recovery with Alma and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
33. The Stuttgart Bahá’í Community ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Created
34. The ‘American Girl’ Teaches Throughout Germany
35. The War to End All Wars
36. Crisis and Victory during the War
37. The Crucible of War and the Revelation of the Divine Plan
38. The Love of God that Bubbles Over
39. In America Again
40. The Ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
41. The German Bahá’í Community after Alma
42. The Sad Story of Wilhelm Herrigel
43. Return to Germany?
44. Serving the Guardian in the United States
45. Cabin John, Maryland, and a Year of Reflection
46. In the South One Last Time
47. The Last Years

Bibliography
Notes and References
Index
About the Author